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yesterday's answers

 This is the Alexander Harbour Parade Ramsgate

 demolished and rebuilt as this

Queen St Margate Lipton's 1905, near where Boots is now

and this, well you would only know if you had owned British motorbikes back in the day, which for me was the 60s and 70s. This is a Wipac handlebar control the switch os for main and dipped beam the black button for the horn and the red button shorted out the magneto points so you could stop the engine. Most british biles had either Wipac or Lucas electrics and the Lucas handlebar controls weren't as good.

 This photo of dancing at the bandstand in Ramsgate enlarges enough to identify the people
here is the link to download it

You don't get many showing The Granville before the height of the tower was reduced around 1900

Onto coronavirus

first from Simon Crow

Latest C-19 Death Rates by Country
Here is a similar chart to my daily posting, comparing the daily death rates per capita for the same six countries and also with 7-day moving average. Only difference is that it shows actual dates rather than 'days from first reported death'.

As you can see we are still doing pretty badly as a country. I am hoping that we will soon see some sensible measures to get the figures down and the country back on its feet. I find I am seeing far to much political criticism, from the press and from politicians and very little in terms of constructive suggestions about how we should act now.

I think the problem is that we have to give up some of our civil rights, particularly in terms of the government knowing where we are and where we've been and we have to have stricter control of people's activities. To recover in any sense we have to test people and isolate those infected.

Country, Other	Total Cases	New Cases	Total Deaths	New Deaths	Total Recovered	Active Cases	Serious, Critical	Tot Cases/ 1M pop	Deaths/ 1M pop	Total Tests	Tests/ 1M pop
World	4,098,279	+88,988	280,224	+4,248	1,436,206	2,381,849	47,685	526	36.0
USA	1,347,309	+25,524	80,037	+1,422	238,078	1,029,194	16,816	4,070	242	8,918,263	26,943
Spain	262,783	+2,666	26,478	+179	173,157	63,148	1,741	5,620	566	2,467,761	52,781
Italy	218,268	+1,083	30,395	+194	103,031	84,842	1,034	3,610	503	2,514,234	41,584
UK	215,260	+3,896	31,587	+346	N/A	183,329	1,559	3,171	465	1,728,443	25,461
Russia	198,676	+10,817	1,827	+104	31,916	164,933	2,300	1,361	13	5,221,964	35,783
France	176,658	+579	26,310	+80	56,038	94,310	2,812	2,706	403	1,384,633	21,213
Germany	171,324	+736	7,549	+39	143,300	20,475	1,650	2,045	90	2,755,770	32,891
Brazil	156,061	+10,169	10,656	+664	61,685	83,720	8,318	734	50	339,552	1,597
Turkey	137,115	+1,546	3,739	+50	89,480	43,896	1,168	1,626	44	1,334,411	15,822
Iran	106,220	+1,529	6,589	+48	85,064	14,567	2,696	1,265	78	573,220	6,825
China	82,887	+1	4,633		78,046	208	15	58	3
Canada	67,702	+1,268	4,693	+124	31,249	31,760	502	1,794	124	1,068,000	28,297
Peru	65,015	+3,168	1,814	+100	20,246	42,955	748	1,972	55	494,250	14,990
India	62,808	+3,113	2,101	+116	19,301	41,406		46	2	1,523,213	1,104
Belgium	52,596	+585	8,581	+60	13,411	30,604	502	4,538	740	540,643	46,649
Netherlands	42,382	+289	5,422	+63	N/A	36,710	541	2,473	316	249,655	14,570